David Duchovny Quotes
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
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'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.
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As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to...
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I was in the sixth grade and living in Germany, when I was hanging out late with some friends. I turned around, and there's a dude dressed up as Michael Myers following us all the way home. It was the scariest thing ever, and it always reminds me of Halloween. In my mind, I was so young, so I really thought it was Mike Myers following me home.
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Why would anybody not own a gun?
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I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.
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You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?
